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Originally Posted by Brown Owl
The thing is - I think the true meaning behind what someone says is hard to read in writing, that if you are face to face you read the persons body language too. Face to face you can immediately ask for clarification of something. Also the speaker can gauge from the other person's response whether the person has understood what they meant or whether they need to expand. If there is a misunderstanding the person can be left for sometime with this from a letter.
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I don't see therapy in this fashion. For me, the act of thinking and writing and sending is a therapeutic endeavor. Receiving and wrestling with the writing of the other is also. The time component need not be so immediate for me.